Form submit with Enter Key

**crobinson42** · 02-29-2012, 03:48 AM

Hello all, I'm curious if anyone has experienced this frustrating problem; When I make forms, some of them the Enter key works to submit the form in IE 8 and on some of the forms it does not. Am I missing something??

**keyboard** · 02-29-2012, 05:33 AM

Found this

Code:

<html>
<head>
<SCRIPT TYPE="text/javascript">
<!--
function submitenter(myfield,e)
{
var keycode;
if (window.event) keycode = window.event.keyCode;
else if (e) keycode = e.which;
else return true;

if (keycode == 13)
   {
   myfield.submit();
   return false;
   }
else
   return true;
}
//-->
</SCRIPT>
</head>
<body>
<FORM ACTION="processingpage" onKeyPress="return submitenter(this,event)">
<input type="text"></input>
</FORM>
</body>
</html>

All you need to do is add this onKeyPress="return submitenter(this,event)" to your form tag and this

Code:

<SCRIPT TYPE="text/javascript">
<!--
function submitenter(myfield,e)
{
var keycode;
if (window.event) keycode = window.event.keyCode;
else if (e) keycode = e.which;
else return true;

if (keycode == 13)
   {
   myfield.submit();
   return false;
   }
else
   return true;
}
//-->
</SCRIPT>

to the head of your document. It'll submit the form onkeypress enter(keycode 13).

The srcipt was from here
Keyboard1333

**crobinson42** · 02-29-2012, 03:29 PM

Thanks, I was hoping to not have to use script! I guess it's just a bug!?

**keyboard** · 02-29-2012, 11:57 PM

Yes I agree, it can be very frustrating...
At least there's a fairly easy way out of it.

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